"Lunchbox".
She is an ordinary housewife who puts all her feelings into the family. Like thousands of housewives, it is their responsibility to take care of their children and serve their husbands. But Mara's husband doesn't feel much for her, and she tries every day to make a different lunch for her husband, hoping to get his praise. But each time the husband has a lot of meals left.
On this day, the lunch that Mara carefully prepared for her husband was accidentally delivered by the delivery boy to Firth, who was about to retire. Firth works in finance and is a lonely, middle-aged man. His wife has been dead for years, no one to help him make lunch, and he can only order food at restaurants every day.
Looking at the lunch delivered today, Fels felt different from the past, thinking that the restaurant had changed its chef. After lunch, the lunch box was delivered back by the delivery boy. Mara saw the clean lunch box and thought that her husband liked today's meal very much, and was very happy, so she dressed up carefully and waited for her husband to praise her after work. But when my husband came home from work, he said that today's meal was no different from before, but the broccoli was delicious. This can make Mara listen silly, there is no broccoli in the dish made today. She suddenly understood that she might have delivered the wrong lunch to the wrong person.
After work, Firth came to the restaurant because he was about to retire, wanted to cancel next month's order, and praised today's lunch as very delicious. The restaurant thought that broccoli was very suitable for his taste, so he planned to make some broccoli every day. When he returned home, Firth was alone, watching the scene of other people's family eating, and he could only smoke lonely on the balcony.
The next day it was time for lunch again. Firth opened the lunch box and found a note inside the lunch box that said: Thank you very much for eating the lunch I made yesterday. But that lunch was actually made for her husband. She was very happy to see the lunch she had eaten, and the dishes had been prepared by her for a long time.
Many thanks to Fels for liking and finishing the dish she cooked. To say thank you, today she made her husband's favorite cheese specifically for Firth. The note was signed at the end of the note Mara. Firth suddenly realized that it was the delivery man who had made an omission. So Firth also gave Mara a note back that said dear Mara.
Today's meal is a little salty. Mara was a little angry after receiving the note and reading it, and she cooked the meal so carefully. Firth doesn't say thank you. On the contrary, it also provokes problems.
So Mara wanted to fix Fels, and the next day deliberately put a lot of chili peppers in the meal, and lunch was delivered on time. I don't know if Firth was curious about what a delicious meal would be today, or if he was expecting a reasonable note for lunch. Before lunchtime, Fels couldn't wait to go to the restaurant, but after looking for a long time, he couldn't find a note, but he was choked on the spiciness.
So he wrote to Mara: Today's lunch is not salty but a little spicy, but fortunately he ate two more bananas and his stomach was not so uncomfortable. He also told Mara that bananas help with gastrointestinal peristalsis, and that many people in the city eat bananas for lunch, which are cheap and filling. At night, Mara couldn't sleep, she felt that this Firth, who had never met before, was very kind, so she slowly began to tell Fels about her troubles in this special way.
He told Firth that her husband came home late from work and that he didn't talk to him at home. In the morning, when her husband goes to work and her daughter goes to school, she will cook with her aunt upstairs, and her boring life every day makes her a little confused about what she is living for. Firth wrote back to Mara, telling her that people are busy and that everyone wants to have a better life.
Firth suggested that Mara and her husband have another child, perhaps the child could maintain their marriage, and listening to his advice, Mara dressed up for the evening, intending to relive the sweet time with her husband and propose to have another baby. But her husband immediately refused, and told Mara not to always make broccoli. It turned out that her husband had not eaten it at all for so many days, and lunch was not made by Mara. Mara was extremely disappointed, and she felt that she and her husband had become strangers.
The next day Mara told Firth about it, and Firth reassured her not to be so pessimistic, and sometimes things weren't as bad as she thought. Mara slowly began to enjoy the letter from a stranger, and also specially found the recipe left by her grandmother to make this season's unique food for Firth. Firth praised Grandma Mara's recipe as delicious, even surpassing his favorite eggplant.
He told Mara that he would sit on the balcony and smoke at night. Marla told him that every cigarette he smoked would save five minutes of life. At night, when Fels habitually came to the balcony to think of Mara and tried to resist the desire to smoke. In the letter, Mara confided in him that she found out that her husband was having an affair, but did not have the courage to say it to his face, so that she did not know what to do, and said that the country of Bhutan is a very happy place, if only India were like Bhutan. Firth knew that Mara was not so happy, and plucked up the courage to write to Mara and said: (What if I go to Bhutan with you?) Why don't you go to Bhutan together. He probably didn't even notice that the smile on his face slowly increased. The two meet at a café.
But that day Mara waited for a long time to see Fels, and Mara thought Firth had missed the appointment. In fact, Firth went to the coffee shop that day, but when he saw the young and beautiful Mara, he did not have the courage to step forward, but looked at Mara from a distance.
Although he really wanted to step forward and say to Mara that you are beautiful, he still sat quietly and looked at Mara, he felt old, and Mara was very young, he understood that no one would want to ask for an expired lottery ticket, and after retirement, Firth planned to leave here and return to his hometown of Naxi. On the other hand, Mara's father died suddenly.
When she chatted with her mother, she said she had been afraid of her father's death. But when the day did come, she felt as if relieved. For so many years, she had to prepare food, feed medicine, and wipe her body every day, and the repeated repetition made her very irritable and disgusted. After hearing her mother's words, Mara felt that she was the same as her mother, repeating the same thing every day, which made herself extremely tired. She suddenly understood what she wanted in life.
